Capshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments)
Relies on Holsey v. Director of Classification for Division of Corrections · Pataki v. Grumet · Kansas v. Nebraska · United States v. Singleton · United States v. Singleton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We construe the statute as a whole, giving effect to every word, clause, and sentence, and we construe together all parts of the statute in pari materia so that no part will be inoperative or superfluous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.